| Viola-Leaved Blue Sow-Thistle |
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| Original date | 8/21/11 11:53 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Melanoseris violifolia Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Cicerbita violifolia, Prenanthes violifolia, Lactuca violifolia
Synonyms: Cicerbita violifolia, Prenanthes violifolia, Lactuca violifolia
Viola-Leaved Blue Sow-Thistle is a very slender
perennial herb, up to a foot tall, with leaves predominantly like those of Violets, broad,
ovate-heart-shaped, and violet-blue sow-thistle-like flowers. However,
leaves can also be triangular or somewhat arrow-shaped and dissected. Tip and ears
are blunt or pointed. Leaves are mostly entire or obscurely
wavy-toothed, glaucous beneath, 1-2 inches long and broad. Leaf-stalks
are long, lower 3-8 inches, simple or winged or dilated at base.
The plants are quite hairless.
Violet-blue flower-heads are borne in 5-8-flowered, long-stalked,
pendulous racemes. Involucral bracts are about 1.2 cm long, outer very
small, inner linear blunt. Seed-pods are about 4 mm, contracted at both
ends, but not beaked. Viola-Leaved Blue Sow-Thistle is found in Western
Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon, at altitudes of 2700-3600 m.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal, J.M. Garg | Photographed in Kinnaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh & Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |
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